Barrels registered?

shell casings

When I bought my Buckmark pistol it had two empty casings in a small envelope. Apparently in the States these would be given to the local law for their library of casings in case of a crime. You might be able to change a barrel but ever try to pick up every peice of brass..........rigrat
 
Only in Kalifornia. I just throw that extra case in the box with the others I plan to reload.

CSI will also give DNA results in the same day, while in reality it could take weeks or months. If forensics labs were like the ones on the telly, every criminal would be in jail. Another pet peeve, EVERY fingerprint they check turns up a colour photo and arrest record of the perp.
 
and more and more gun finger printing is rejected in court because its FAR form an exact science and it was prouved wrong many time. This is why they are now asking for a spécial stamp to be installed in gun chamber so that your gun serial would be stamp in every pice of brass.

of course this is completely idiot but hey they have a federal budget and like i was one said by a federal employe: sir, why would we make things simple when we are equiped to make them complicated ?
 
I agree with you John, but lets not forget that a good majority of those who commit major crimes/felonies are repeat offenders. Hence why the show depicts their record when they run their prints. Obviously not everyone is going to be in the system as is the case on CSI. The other thing that drives me to drink is their impeccable computer programs with particular interest in their image altering abilities. Anyone see the CSI Miami where the punks were playing out Grand theft auto for real. There's a scene in the beginning where "Eric" is at an ATM outside when the baddies pull up and park. From a crappy surveilance camera on the top of the building they manage to identify a parking pass in the window.... YEAH RIGHT!!!!

TDC
 
scottshotz said:
Interesting question here...I am assuming that if my glock were used in a crime and the bullet were recovered at the scene....I would get a visit from police. Why wouldn't criminals just buy guns, purchase a new barrel and then not worry about the bullet being traced back to them? Unless the new barrel is registered to the gun owner somehow.
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There's no need to change the barrel. A criminal can just get a steel brush and run it through the barrel a couple of times. Alternatively, one can go and fire 200-300 rounds of ammo through the gun. The rifling will wear enough to make the original pattern unrecognizable. As you can see, barrel registration would accomplish very little.

All of this is, of course, notwithstanding the fact that criminals don't register their guns in the first place. If they don't register guns, what makes you think they would register barrels?
 
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CSI, all versions, is jam packed full of BS. It always amuses me when, in the Vegas version, they prattle on about a firearm being registered. Nevada has no registration. The ATF could tell who bought a firearm when it was new, but not if it had been sold after that.
 
There are registries of casings that have been found in shootings, only for the purpose of trying to link one shooting to another though a firearm. I don't know if this is done in Canada, but I am to understand this method has been used in the US.

Please correct me if I'm wrong since I can't recall the source of the infomation at this time.
 
scottshotz said:
Unless the new barrel is registered to the gun owner somehow.
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I think this part of the question is true, a new barrel is registered to the owner of the gun?
I think i've seen that when i've perused(sp?) new gun parts...????
 
gobrob said:
I think this part of the question is true, a new barrel is registered to the owner of the gun?
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Not in Canada...the only part that gets registered is the frame or receiver. You can change the barrel as many times as you'd like without telling anyone as long as you don't change the barrel's length. The barrel length measurement is included in the registration details for restricted firearms but no other details on the specific barrel are included. If the barrel length is changed on a restricted firearm it should be re-registered with the new length, but the barrel itself is not registered . If the new barrel is the same length as the old one no registration details are changed.
 
I just recently bought a Baby Eagle and it came with a spent Brass. I asked the guy what this was for (I figured that it was a test shot to make sure it was working properly) and he said that it was also a fingerprint that they take in the states. As far as I know, they don't do anything like that in Canada!
 
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